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I was just thinking that it might be a little much for a 90 pound pig at 40 yards. Drop a 150 gr cup and core to about 2300 fps and you might be on to something. Of course, about the time you did that a 290 pounder would appear 200 yards away!

Rev,for the first a 30/30 would work,the second well....

Rev,all kidding aside,why do you want a straight pull bolt action?

Yep!

Saaawwwwweeeeeeeettttttt!

I don't know how seriously I want one, but there are two reasons why I think a straight-pull is an attractive option. First, they're compact, which makes them handy in brush or blind. From what I can tell, they're about 3 inches shorter than a standard bolt action with the same length barrel. Second, every once in a while I'll either get a chance at a second pig or need to put another round in one that I might have hit too high. The clearings where the pigs are taken is never any more than about 25 feet from dense palmetto or myrtle and oak thickets. Pigs might not look fast, but they can cover that 25 feet pretty dog-gone fast. Frankly, a good auto would be the ticket, but then there's that length thing again.

It just sounds like rationalization, doesn't it...good rationalization, but rationalization nevertheless.

Yes it does sound like "good rationalization" to me.

You sound like a "rifle looney" what will the itch be tomorrow,next week....

My itch right now is either a Winchester in .25-06 or a "classic" style rifle in .340 Wby.

Ain't it the truth! I always give it three weeks. If the itch is still there, I then begin to think seriously about scratching it.

My wife gives me two weeks,then she knows I'm serious!

Almost never get to two weeks,or even two days,hours,minutes.

Actually, I was was referring to the pile they end up in after the shot! They catch them as they pass through those fire cuts and roll them over.

I have a friend who was an Army captain in Germany at the end of the war. As the mlitary administrator for a good-sized area, and since civilians were forbidden to have firearms, he was able to do a lot of hunting and learned all the ceremonial stuff. He still has a bunch of roebuck antlers on his wall. He even bagged a couple of auerhahns, sort of a German "turkey".

Oh, I see. The looked like boulders where Franz Albrecht was shooting!

You aren't sure how serious you are about the Dakota after stewing on it...


But I'll bet you still want a british magazine rifle


Save your money

For the magazine rifle? Or just in general?

I believe Albrecht is German for "Whack 'n Stack".

Could be. Looke him up on the Internet. He's some sort of prince. Evidently he has a lot of time on his hands.

I have plenty of TIME. It's the shortage of that other resource that keeps me experiencing driven boar shooting second hand. If one wants to live like a prince, one should be more selective when choosing one's parents.

Use the money and go on a safari.

Have a Dakota 76 African in .416 Rigby they made for me in early 2007. So far, it's been on six (6) DG hunts and has always worked perfectly. I've got ~400 rounds through it now and it consistently shoots an inch or less. It has accounted for many head of game. If I could only own one rifle, this would be the one I keep.